Dozens and dozens of books pile up around here every week, and while I’d like to say each one gets a fair shake at a review, you and I both know that’s not true. This week, the TOC Blog introduces a new recurring feature, in which we pluck our favorite weird books from the mail bin, and profile these wonders of publishing. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Weird Book of the Week.

We kick things off this week with:

Keith Richards has had a lot to say over the course of his four-plus decades in the Rolling Stones, which means it’s only sensible that there would be two books devoted to his various quips, published on the same day, May 5, 2009. Mark Blake’s book, Stone Me: The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards (New American Library, $12.95), takes a minimalist approach, grouping an array of quips into various categories, including “Keith vs. Mick,” and “Keith vs. The Human Body.” In What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Survivor (Bloomsbury, $16), Jessica Pallington West tries to build a cogent philosophy out of Richards’s addled utterances, a sort of Heroin Soup for the Soul. Read more »